To Be Ethical Is To Be In Alignment With Certain Principles
Ethics Is Not About Good and Bad, Right and Wrong, Moral and Immoral
This Substack is about what ecological psychology can tell us about ethics. As it turns out, that will be a lot.
Very important insights follow.
By looking at whole ecosystems, which include you and your home, and specifically, by understanding the emotions, feelings and associations involved in issues, by looking at who is involved and who is affected, by looking at when these affects occur and where, we come to numerous very important ideas that are way more intriguing than they first appear to be, such as, paraphrasing Dr. Lori Pye at Viridis Graduate Institute: 1) matter and meaning cannot be separated; 2) intra-actions are agentive (ecoPsyche lingo for deeds come from within the doer of the action); 3) Earth’s systems matter; 4) our whole planet is agential (has a perceptive interiority that can express power); 5) all life forms matter; 6) Earth’s processes matter; 7) agential movements—perceptive powers— surround us; 8) all beings are obliged to relate; 9) vital inner world entanglements and inner world dependencies of life on Earth are destroyed by narratives of human supremacism, exceptionalism, and individualism; 10) an understanding of ethics requires a non-centric pluralistic perspective; and 11) all environments have both ecological and psychological aspects.
